HANDYSIDE, Robert (son of William Handyside, writer to the signet). b. Edinburgh 1798; ed. at Univ. of Edin.; advocate at Scottish bar 1822; deputy of the lord advocate 1835; sheriff depute of co. Stirling 9 July 1840; solicitor general for Scotland 17 Jany. 1853; a lord of session and justiciary with courtesy title of Lord Handyside 15 Nov. 1853 to death. d. Kennet, Edinburgh 18 April 1858. Journal of jurisprudence ii, 245 (1858).
HANHAM, Thomas Barnabas (youngest son of Rev. Sir James Hanham, 7 baronet, d. 2 April 1849, m. Eliza Dean dau. of William Patey, she d. Wimborne, Dorset 5 June 1877 aged 90). b. 11 June 1825; sub-lieut. R.N. 6 Aug. 1845, lieut. 1847, retired 1864, commander 30 April 1879; Provincial S.G.W. of Dorset. d. Manston house, Blandford, Dorset 27 Nov. 1883, cremated Manston 4 Dec. when a masonic ritual was used which had not been employed in England during the century. m. as his third wife 1 Dec. 1868 Edith Mary widow of major John Swinburne 18 regt., she d. 30 July 1876.
Note.—He erected in the private grounds of Manston house a crematorium, and having disinterred the remains of his third wife and his mother, had them cremated there on the 8 and 9 Oct. 1882. These were the first cremations in England in modern times. Times 12 Oct. 1882 p. 4, 5 Dec. 1883 p. 7, 6 Dec. p. 7; Trans. Cremation Soc. 1885 p. 48 with view of the Crematorium.
HANKEY, Sir Frederick (3 son of John Hankey). Ensign 90 foot Sep. 1800; major of 50 foot 1808, of 2 Ceylon regiment 1809, of 15 foot 1815 to 25 March 1816 when placed on h.p.; sec. to order of St. Michael and St. George 17 Nov. 1818 to 20 June 1833; col. in the army 27 Nov. 1825, retired Aug. 1826; sec. to government of Malta 1825 to 1838; G.C.M.G. 4 May 1833 for his services in Malta, d. 7 Montagu sq. London 13 March 1855 aged 81.
HANKEY, Henry Aitchison (son of John Peter Hankey). b. 6 Oct. 1805; ensign 10 foot 26 June 1823; lieut. col. 1 dragoon guards 19 Jany. 1844 to 12 Nov. 1852; col. of 3 hussars 12 Jany. 1866, of 1 dragoon guards 1 Jany. 1872 to death; general 7 Dec. 1871. d. Cliff house, Sandgate 24 June 1886.
HANKEY, William Alers. b. London 15 Aug. 1771; ed. at univ. of Edin.; head of the firm of Hankeys & Co. bankers, 7 Fenchurch st. London; assisted in proceedings of Religious tract society 1801–1808; one of founders and conductors of British and foreign Bible society 1804, treasurer 1801–32; A.I.C.E. 1820, treasurer 1820–45; gave evidence on slavery before house of commons 1833; author of Letters to Joseph Sturge relating to the Arcadia estate in Jamaica 1838. d. 5 Hyde park gardens, London 23 March 1859. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xx, 134 (1861).
HANKINSON, Most Rev. Michael Adrian. b. Warrington 29 Sep. 1817; ordained priest at St. Edmund’s Benedictine college, Douay 1841, sub-prior there to 1851, prior 1854–63; bishop of Port Louis, Mauritius 1863 to death, during which time an epidemic carried off one-sixth of the population in 3 years. d. Douay 21 Sep. 1870. Gillow’s English Catholics (1888) iii, 111–2.
HANKINSON, Ven. Robert Edwards. b. 1798; ed. at C.C. coll. Cam., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1824; R. of Halesworth, Suffolk 1850–63; archdeacon of Norwich 1857 to death; R. of North Creake, Norfolk 1863 to death; author of The Communion of believers, a course of lectures 1838; The call of Abraham, a Seatonian poem 1841. d. North Creake 27 March 1868 aged 70.
HANLON, Thomas, b. Manchester 1836; first appeared in public as a gymnast at the Colosseum, Liverpool; organised with his 5 brothers gymnastic performances that have made them famous in Europe and America; performed in U.S. of America 1858–62 and 1865–6, in California, South America and Europe 1862–4; performed in London and at the Exposition in Paris 1867; committed suicide at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 5 April 1868.
HANMER, John Hanmer, 1 Baron (1 child of Thomas Hanmer 1781–1818, lieut.-col. Flintshire militia). b. 22 Dec. 1809; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded his grandfather as 3 baronet 1828; sheriff of Flintshire 1832; M.P. Shrewsbury 1832–37; M.P. Hull 1841–47; M.P. Flint district 1847–72; cr. Baron Hanmer of Hanmer and of Flint 1 Oct. 1872; author of Poems on various subjects 1836; Fra Cipolla and other poems 1839; Sonnets 1840; A memoir of the family and parish of Hanmer 1877. d. Knotley hall, Kent 8 March 1881. St. Paul’s, x, 368–77 (1872); I.L.N. lxi, 340, 342 (1872), portrait.